On Wed, Oct 16, 2013 at 06:10:22AM -0500, Darren Addy wrote: > Thanks to all for the encouraging words. > > Regarding aiming, I did see one guy say that shining a laser pointer > into the viewfinder (and therefore bouncing off the prism, mirror and > out the lens) makes a nice aiming device. I have one ordered, but it > hasn't shown up yet. If that works it would make things MUCH simpler - > although not as simple as having three hands to adjust the camera on > the ball head whilst holding the laser pointer properly. :) I also > saw a simple focusing aid - two thin rubberbands stretched around the > camera and across the front of the lens to form a crosshairs. (Creates > diffraction spikes on the bright stars and sharp diffraction spikes = > in proper focus). Want to try that also.
1) You will need a green laser pointer. 2) be very careful that the intensity of the laser pointer beam doesn't burn out any sensors that might be active when looking through the lens, metering, autofocus etc. 3) I'd be inclined to make a plate that fits between camera and tripod that mounts the green laser parallel to the lens. That way you could also see it through the viewfinder. 4) I picked up a red dot spotting scope for use with my bigma and bushhawk some time back and a mount to attach it to the hot shoe. That worked pretty well, particularly once it was scoped in. -- Larry Colen [email protected] http://red4est.com/lrc -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
